Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Previously on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles...

What is it you wanted to show me?

We need to learn how they work, how to fight 'em.

We're developing a human interactive AI.

The name is Babylon. It's going to change the world.

- Dr. Boyd Sherman. - He's on that wall for a reason.

I guess I'm still a little fuzzy as to why you called me here.

- The AI needs to be trained. - You care about this girl?

- Then leave her alone. - You're pissed off

because I found someone I actually like spending time with

and it's not you.

What does this mean to you?

I keep seeing it in my dreams, John. It means something.

Go back to bed.

Keep it ruining.

We'll be back.

- Right place? - Right place.

Should have brought John.

We dont need to know much about computers

in order to do this.

Get the ones over there.

It's the same as the rest. It's vaporware.

- There's nothing there? - I didn't say that.

It's a design for an AI.

Built to handle big problems.

But you need a whole server farm to run it, and they've got zip... less than zip...

after you lobotomized their desktops.

But they have a design.

But it's like all those articles you read

about terrorists having plans for nuclear bombs and all they're missing is the plutonium.

It's another dead end.

You're chasing phantoms and smudges on a wall.

Again.

Artificial intelligence, the company logo,

- the three dots... - Are fingerprints...

left by that poor bastard while he was bleeding out in the basement, that's all.

It's just blood.

Everything on that wall has meant something.

It's all blood.

Cromartie's body isn't in Ellison's yard.

Nobody's saying to stop looking.

But this...

it's not The Turk.

You've been looking really hard, mom.

- Maybe too hard. - If you're gonna start in too, don't.

- Morning. - Good morning to you.

Well, I did some digging on the drives.

Dakara Systems is hunting for start-up money.

They need investors for the server farm they're gonna build.

Big investors.

I made you an appointment. Here's your cover.

I'm a rich divorcee looking to put my money

into tech start-ups.

That's right.

I also made you a cheat sheet

so you wouldn't sound like a total moron

when you're asking about neural networks and emergent behavior.

- I have no idea what you just said. - Yeah, that's my point.

Were you up all night doing this?

Dakara Systems is a start-up, okay.

So was Cyberdyne once.

Andy Goode was building a chess program.

Barbara Chamberlain was trying to solve a traffic problem.

It always starts small.

You've got 30 seconds.

- Go. - Funny, Derek.

25. I'm not joking.

- I was sent back to find him. - You could have told me.

You could have told me you were living with him. With her. It.

Metal.

He wasn't talking to anyone anymore. Just her.

He's making questionable decisions. Getting people killed.

Good people.

- 10 seconds. - She's taken over.

It's sick is what it is.

Imagine if he spends the next 20 years with her.

Imagine what he'd become.

What she'll turn him into.

Just try.

I'm here to stop her.

I'm here to save him.

I've gotta think about this.

What the hell are you doing here?

Why'd Connor sent you back?

I love you...

but don't push it.

Been a long time. Heard you lost some weight.

Yeah, well, too much iron in your diet's not good.

What you got?

A heat wave blew a transformer on Sunday,

blacked out half of downtown.

Single guy, working the weekends.

Spent eight hours in a sealed room.

No AC, no ventilation.

Heated up until it easy-baked him to death.

Not a happy ending.

His name is Dr. Boyd Sherman.

He was a consultant on a project here.

He worked downstairs.

Downstairs?

The basement?

We call the project Babylon.

It's a sophisticated computer program.

An artificial intelligence.

During the blackout,

the AI reserved generator power for itself.

And in doing so, shut down the building's other systems.

And this AI... it has control over the building?

You make it sound like a monster movie.

The facility and the AI are interconnected

only to the extent that the AI needs the facility's resources

to help it grow.

And does growing...

involve allowing the agonizing death

of an otherwise healthy man?

I don't know what his intentions were.

Intentions?

Now it does sound like a monster movie.

Which is why we need to find out.

- Thank you, colonel. - Good to see you.

Sarah Gale.

Alex Akagi. Welcome to Dakara.

You'll have to bear with us. We had a break-in last night.

They took our drives.

Industrial espionage, for sure.

There's a lot of money in AI. A lot of money.

Aren't you worried they've got your software now?

- That they'll pass it off as their own? - No.

My son built security measures into the code.

Anyone tries to use the system, it'll attack.

Is that why the Air Force wants it?

The Air Force has been interested in AI applications for a long time.

As far back as the '80s.

Strange you call the '80s "far back".

I know, isn't it? Are you a music fan?

That's how I mark the decades.

Fome, the '80s will always be Duran Duran.

Duran Duran... I loved Duran Duran.

We used to go dancing. I miss dancing.

- We'd dress up. - Headband, big hair?

It's the hardest thing to get right.

- Hair. - Right.

So... the Air Force.

Spreading money all over.

R&D, industry co-financing, prizes.

I call her Emma.

My AI.

Her name is Emma.

Like my mom.

He never knew her.

She died in a car crash in 1984.

Coffee? Always helps me think better.

- You? - Always.

Do you like chess?

I don't pretend to know what goes on in that big brain.

He operates in realms that you and I can't imagine.

He just has trouble with this one.

He needs you.

I bet sometimes it feels like he always will.

You have any kids?

Just one. Just my son.

Also challenging?

- In his own way. - Then, you get it.

We'd do anything for our kids,

throw our lives out the window if we had to.

Tell me what you need.

Well, last night I would have said $100,000 and little patience.

This morning I need ten times that and a miracle.

That's a hell of a morning.

- Xander's design is so good. - How much time do you have?

Two weeks.

You need more than I have, Mr. Akagi.

Call me Alex.

Sorry, Alex.

Well, I'm sorry too, Ms. Gale.

Call me Sarah.

Hi, I'm looking for Riley.

Yeah, sure. You must be John.

Kay. This is John.

Come in. Riley's upstairs.

So your foster parents... it's not really what I imagined.

Yeah, they're nice.

They're too nice. They're aliens.

You see those kids down there? They're not theirs.

They're just losers...

and cast-offs and rejects.

They run a loser camp here.

What about my posters?

What's your favorite?

I don't know. I like Yosemite.

I've been there with my mom.

What about you?

I'm gonna guess the bear.

You seem like a bear person.

It's not a poster of a bear.

It's a poster of a fish being caught by a bear.

Just swiped out of the water.

Totally at random.

Do the other fish even care?

Do they even notice?